342 stories by "Carey"
There are those rare occasions when life and art mirror each other so perfectly you can't help but get goosebumps. Watching Grounded, the one-woman show starring a remarkable Anne Hathaway a…
I've never been a big fan of vampires. The Twilight books bored me, and the movies even more so. And while I enjoyed the book "Let the Right One In," I was skeptical as to how it would trans…
Tortured relationships between fathers and daughters are nothing new to drama. They are, of course, a more recent aspect of the canon to be explored after centuries of fathers and sons strug…
Anyone who sees Rasheeda Speaking, the intriguing new play by Joel Drake Johnson that explores dangerous dynamics in the workplace, may find themselves calling out sick to work the day after…
Few things are more charming than Kristin Chenoweth in a great role. The multi-talented actress is back on Broadway, starring in a revival of On the Twentieth Century, the Comden-Green-Colem…
It isn't the supernatural that is haunting the Brooklyn Academy of Music, where a shocking and shattering production of Ghosts is presented at the Harvey Theater. Directed by Richard Eyre, H…
It is both enlightening and depressing how relevant The Heidi Chronicles still is, more than a decade after its premiere on Broadway. Wendy Wasserstein's look at the life of feminist art his…
When writing about Helen Mirren's performance as Queen Elizabeth in The Audience, a new play by Peter Morgan, opportunities for puns abound, but I will do my best to resist. Mirren is no str…
Originally published on Alternet.org View this story online "It just got scarier and scarier," Anna Haas said, describing a recent visit to the doctor. But instead of a medical procedure, Ha…
I was invited to participate in the Row J Roundtable with Meredith Ganzman and Jesse Oxfeld, where we discussed the spring Broadway season.
Following the publication of the article “Being a Bridesmaid is Driving Me Into Bankruptcy,” I was invited to discuss the article on Good Morning America. Watch the video below. …
It’s not for a lack of trying. Bullets Over Broadway, the latest screen to stage musicalization to hit the Great White Way, certainly tries. It’s bright, sparkling and loud. The …
Originally published on Alternet.org View this story online My phone rings at 8 AM on a Saturday morning. I groggily look at the caller ID and see that it's one of my good friends from high …
Politics are most definitely personal in The City of Conversation, the new play by Anthony Giardina in performances at Lincoln Center. Directed by Doug Hughes and starring an elegant and imp…
As an avowed fan of “Downton Abbey,” I was very intrigued by the idea of A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, a musical that had been described as “Downton Abbey” …
In Violet, a musical about changing how a person sees herself, Sutton Foster allows the audience a completely new way to see her. Foster, a two-time Tony Award winner for Thoroughly Modern M…
Willkommen back, Cabaret. We’re happy to see you, indeed. In a season awash with revivals, the return of Sam Mendes’ and Rob Marshall’s Tony Award-winning production to its…
I found myself pleasantly surprised by Beautiful – The Carole King Musical. Admittedly, not often a fan of jukebox musicals, which I have found to be formulaic and predictable, I was b…
"It's all the right things in all the wrong places," Gerrard Lobo said of the play Liliom, a tragic love story of a carousel barker and a small-town girl who are doomed to not reach a happy …
The dark, grim and gritty production of Machinal, Sophie Treadwell's 1928 play about the confines of society, is currently shining a much-needed light on our culture. Treadwell's work, inspi…
I've written about the TV show "Pretty Little Liars" before on this blog. Many of my friends have expressed surprise that I watch the ABC Family drama about teenage girls being harassed by a…
We've all read at least one of the Buzzfeed blog posts about how old we're getting – "30 Signs You're Almost 30," "Your Early Twenties vs. Your Late Twenties," or "A Twentysomething Pa…
The blessing and burden that is motherhood is on display at City Center, where Taking Care of Baby, the intriguingly uncomfortable play by Dennis Kelly, is making its American debut. Present…
I used to love watching the film Love Actually. I saw it for the first time in the winter of 2003 and watching the movie quickly became a ritual for me during the holiday season. An admitted…
It all sounds like something from a play. A nonprofit theatre is being harassed with a flood of online bullying, which they suspect might be coming from a colleague in the theatre industry. …
